Welcome to Surrender Dawn. Before starting your journey, make sure that you read everything that's on the Beginner's Guide Board:
First, make sure that you get to know the rules by which we manage our site and community.
For this, visit the Guide to Rules.
After that, it's fundamental to read all that there is to know about the world your character will be inserted into.
In order to do so, go to the Guide to Lore.
Lastly, please take a close look at all the mechanics that dictate our roleplay and its characters.
You can do this by checking out the Guide to Mechanics.
When you've done all of the above, you'll most likely be ready to start creating your character:
Create your Application Thread on the Character Creation Board.
To do so, follow the instructions on the Character Application Template Thread.
Once you're done, just copy the link of the thread and head over to the Grading Center.
To submit your application for review, use the General Submissions Thread.
We hope you enjoy your time with us! Happy Roleplaying!
Updates
11/11/19: Open for Beta Testing! Feel free to explore the site and start creating your characters! If you have any doubt feel free to contact a member of the Staff Team.
Community Project #1: Top Anime Openings [Sign-Ups]
Surrender Dawn's Top Anime Openings Community Project #1
Hello, everyone! It's December and almost Christmas time, so the Staff Team of Surrender Dawn thought this would be the perfect time to start the first of, hopefully, many Community Projects that will be done from time to time! These projects will vary in scale and theme, but all of them are meant to be a simple and fun way for the entire memberbase to, together, be part of something outside of the world of Ordus. This obviously means that these Community Projects are OOC (Out Of Character), since we want to use them as a space for the members to interact and bond outside of the roleplay environment.
So, what will be the first project? Well, as the title of the thread might indicate, we will be making a list - to be more exact, a "Top Anime Openings of All Time according to the members of Surrender Dawn" type of list!
Okay, but how will this work? It's actually fairly simple!
First of all, we just need the ones interested in participating to reply to this thread with their intention of doing so. Do not post your list, do not post scores, etc... Something as simple as "I want in" or "I'm down" is enough!
Once we reach the deadline (stated at the end of this post), me or any other member of the Staff Team will see how many players are participating and, individually through Discord, ask each of them their personal favorite Anime Openings (how many is dependent on how much participants we have). In this stage, there will be no need for the requested list to be ranked in order or scored: just the Name of the Series/OP Number and Name will be enough!
After we collect all the picks, we will compile them into a single list that will be shown individually to each participant. It is then that the member will be asked to rank all of the Openings on said list, giving all of them a score from 0 to 5*.
*EDIT: I thought about this part and I think it's best from 0-5 because, what generally happens with a 0-10 scale (due to it's larger size), is that people usually don't use the bottom part numbers and stick to just giving score from 5 and above. So if it's 0-5 people naturally feel more inclined to use the full range of the scale. That and time wise it's quicker to organize a list where the numbers you can use are fewer!
When all participants turn in the list with their scores we will reach the final stage of this "Group Ranking". The Staff Team will average the score given to each Opening by each member and, from that average, we will reach the definitive Surrender Dawn's Top Anime Openings. The results will be revealed on another thread, with the score given by each member to each Opening detailed.
May the best Opening be chosen!
Final Day for Sign-Ups: 18th of December. Day for the Release of the Results: 25th of December.
